God is sovereign.

I was asked a question by my wonderful husband and it has left me so amazed at God and His sovereignty that I just had to write it down. The question was, 'if you could go back 10 years in time and speak to yourself, what would you say?'. So.... whilst travelling through time in my mind, I thought of myself as a new teenager, and things I could have been told that would have helped me throughout that time.

"Don't worry about what other people think of you;" was the first thing I thought, "it doesn't matter what others think, only what God thinks. Make sure God is part of your personal life throughout your life, part of every day, and don't underestimate the importance of Christian fellowship". I think those would probably have been the most important things for me to hear before I spent some of my teenage years struggling with what others thought and not really thinking about what God wanted me to do.

And then J pointed out that even though I thought I needed to hear that stuff 10 years ago, God still had me in the place I'm in now. I'm in a relationship with Him, I'm saved, and I have a blessed life that I am SO thankful for. So even though I have some experiences in my past I would rather weren't there (and if I had the chance would erase), God in His sovereignty pulled me through to be where I would want to be anyway! And I still have lots of room to grow and become more like my 33 year old self would tell me to be if given the chance...but I am SO thankful that God has me where I am, has me in relationship with Him. Thank you God!!

-K